Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico2292] Tortoises, turtles
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T16939]Jost Amman (designer), Stephan Hermann (printmaker), Quadrupeds (Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum)printing: impressionsingle pieceetchingpaper1559 ‑ 16001559‑01‑011600‑12‑31
[T46479]Sea-turtle (Testudines). In Albertus Magnus, Thierbuch Alberti Magni ..., Walther Hermann Ryff (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1545 (Munich, BSB), fol. Xrprinting: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46811]Turtle II (Tortuca). In Albertus Magnus, Thierbuch Alberti Magni ..., Walther Hermann Ryff (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1545 (Munich, BSB), fol. Aa6rprinting: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T43440]Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tab. LXXX (Tatus, Testudo). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Natvralis De Quadrvpetibvs Libri ..., Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printer), 1649 - 1652 (Mannheim, Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim)printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45109]Turtle (De testudine marina). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini historiae animalium liber II. de quadrupedibus oviparis ... item oviparorum quorundam appendix, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Zürich, ZB), p. 105printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T43289]Hippopotamus, Sheep, Porcupine, Tortoise, Hyena and Civet Cat. In Peter Kolb, Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung, Nuremberg: 1719 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), Tab. VIprinting: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46660]Turtle (Tortuca). In Albertus Magnus, Thierbuch Alberti Magni ..., Walther Hermann Ryff (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1545 (Munich, BSB), fol. Z[X]2vprinting: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45108]Tortoise shell. In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini historiae animalium liber II. de quadrupedibus oviparis ... item oviparorum quorundam appendix, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Zürich, ZB), p. 100printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5128]Plan of Noah's Ark. In Athanasius Kircher, Athanasii Kircheri ... Arca Noë: In Tres Libros Digesta, Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (printer), 1675 (Freiburg im Breisgau, UB), after p. 108printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46308]Tortoise shell. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 118printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T14]Mons Rei Publicae Polonae: Allegory of the Condition of Poland under the Reign of Stephen I Báthory (Warsaw, MNW)drawingsingle piecewatercolour, pen, gildingparchment34023515781578‑01‑011578‑12‑31